Dr Leontien Talboom
Technical Analyst
Directorate: Digital Initiatives
Department: Digital Preservation
Email: lkt39@cam.ac.uk
Leontien's research interests are in digital preservation, particularly in web archives, access to born-digital material and legacy media.
Publications:
- A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats https://zenodo.org/records/13828372
- Digital Healing: Metadata and Documentation for Health Web Archives https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.272
- We’re all experts now? Archiving public health discourse in the UK Web Archive https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/were-all-experts-now-archiving-public-health-discourse-in-the-uk-web-archive/14990
- Keeping it under lock and keywords: exploring new ways to open up the web archives with notebooks https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-022-09391-6
- Computational Access: A beginner’s guide for digital preservation practitioners https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/computational-access-guide
- Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives, UK https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/publications/data-study-group-final-report-national-archives-uk
Affiliated organisations
- Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/fellowship-programme
- Research Catalyst Cohort 2023-2024 https://www.rluk.ac.uk/rluk-ahrc-rep-second-cohort/
- Cambridge Digital Humanities Methods Fellow 2024-2025 https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/people/leontien-talboom/
- UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy Technical Council https://www.techniciancommitment.org.uk/welcoming-the-first-uk-institute-for-technical-skills-and-strategy-technical-council-members
Associated research projects
Archive of Tomorrow
A health-focused web archiving research project funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
Investigating best practice in the preservation of floppy disks in GLAM collections.
The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Photography:
Headline image © Alice the Camera / Cambridge University Library
Archive of Tomorrow header image © Alice the Camera / Cambridge University Library




